Yahama built a motorcycle-riding robot (but don’t worry, it’s no DARPA… yet)

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by Sindy Cator on October 28, 2015 at 4:33 pm

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Are you tired of high speed chase scenes featuring human actors? Booooring. Yahama has come up with something more peculiar: a humanoid robot that can drive one of its racing motorcycles. Displayed on the floor of the 44th Tokyo Motor Show, the Yahama Motobot is what you get if DARPA pivoted away from killer robo-dogs and went full Fast and Furious. Gizmag found it at the Yahama booth sporting a 1000cc R1M motorbike. A brief press release describes robot as part of Yahama’s Research and Development projects, and the company wants it to be able to autonomously drive as fast as 200 kilometers per hour. “I…